Come Stamp With Us!!!
Poppyfield Bead Company is now a well-stocked center for all your stamped metal needs. I am now carrying several metal stamp fonts, base metal blanks, rivets and all your tool needs for creating personalized jewelry like the pendant above. My daughter Hannah designed this stamp to celebrate her love for our cats Skye and Jasmine using an enamel charm and her imagination, and supplies at Poppyfield. The techniques are simple, and require just a little practice. I will be doing a free demos on Tuesday 10/25 from 1-2, instead of free wire class. I will also do a demo on Halloween evening from 6-7. So you can still get your trick or treating in. I will show which tools you need and how to use them to make a variety of stamped pendants. Personalized jewelry make great gifts for the holidays. You do have to buy the tools and stamps, but then you are basically set and the sky's the limit for what you can do with just a few blanks and rivets. Books and design stamps are on their way as well, and hopefully, they will be here for the demo.
Drop Everything and Twist Free Wire Hour tomorrow is postponed because Solange is on vacation and I will be at the register tomorrow. Open Beading is from 1-4 tomorrow and I can help with any projects when I am not with customers.
Crystal Burst Earrings Neuvo /Viejo Mexico Style
Many of you have asked for my Mexican Fan Earrings using rivolis instead of beads.I've been saying, "It is my version of Laura McCabe's Crystal Burst Earrings." I now have "The Laura McCabe Crystal Book". The basis for my earrings are in this book. On November 14th 6-9 PM I will teach my version, Mexican Fan Rivoli earrings using her book. The cost for the class is $10, plus you will need the book. You can buy the book at Poppyfield or bring your own. If you are a new beader looking for a sensational way to break into seed bead work this is for YOU! You will get a lot of guidance during the class and leave with peyote bezeling techniques for working with rivolis and know how to do crystal embellishments. You will have a fantastic book with 65 projects by an extraordinary bead master. Best of all...You will be well on your way into our beady way of life.
Poppy Product Update
A lot of my new products are related to the metal stamping I mentioned: Brass head hammers, heavy duty cutters for riveting, metal hole punchers, diamond coated files, and bead reamer set. I also have the wire rounder for making French earring wires that you can put through your ears safely.
Now in stock by request: The new and updated Beader's Companion (the spiral bound reference book).
Class Update
Seed of Compassion Necklace by Julia Hecht
There are still some places available in the Seed of Compassion Necklace with me on Saturday. This necklace is a seed bead and wire fusion class that is a lot of fun. If you want to learn some wire techniques to apply with tiny beads this a great class for YOU. You won't even need to thread a needle! It meets Saturday 10/22 and 10/29. The cost is $40.
Margo's Ornamental Poppy Necklace has sold out (Oct and November classes). She has a supplement class called the Giant Poppy Ensemble that you can take if you have taken the Ornamental Poppy Class. In addition to the Giant Poppy Necklace with the 27 mm rivoli center, this class includes earrings and bracelets. Nov 21st and 28th 6-9 PM, $40.
Giant Poppy Necklace by Margo Field
